Killing by numbers

It's easier to kill a number than an individual
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Whether we're talking about so many tons of fish
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So many board feet of timber
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Or so many boxcars of cattle
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The logic and processes of the machine can equally accept as inputs anything that can be quantified and measured.
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Removing the nature and life of the number in question makes it easy to kill
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Daily our leaders listen to so called collateral damage reports
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Comfortably removing themselves from the idea that they are killing fellow humans
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Reducing kills to numbers reduces any moral consideration
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Just collateral damage that's all
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Most people will not harm babies, but reduced to statistics and the importance of government position leaders everywhere do just that
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Often on a mass scale
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Daily for many
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Are our leaders natural murderers then?
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Some despots certainly, it is part of their make-up to kill without concern or interest
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But for most today's cruelty is hard to imagine without the reduction of killing to numbers

So why do we continue to hide the human aspect?
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To reduce killing to a numbers game
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To hide killing behind mealy mouthed words
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To eliminate the suffering of mothers and parents
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To distance themselves from the reality
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To continue this is morally wrong
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We must end this hiding behind numbers and words
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But wait a minute isn't that what they do all day long with everything they talk about?
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Just numbers and words
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Let them see those they kill
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Let them personally explain why they feel killing to be an option
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Better still let them spend time with those whose lives they ruin
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Killing by numbers is not acceptable
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No more hiding behind collateral damage
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Killing is killing